List of words and word combinations

to travel by ship - путешествовать на корабле

cabin - каюта

on board a ship - на борту корабля

to book one's passage - заказать билет на пароход

the sea is calm - море спокойное

the sea is growing rough - море разыгрывается, штормит

to pass up the gangway - подняться по трапу

first class - первый класс

second class - второй класс

to stay up on deck - оставаться на палубе

to have a good crossing - благополучно пересечь (Ла-Манш, море, океан)

to pack things - упаковать вещи

upper (lower) berth - верхняя (нижняя) полка

smooth - спокойный, гладкий, ровный

life belt - спасательный пояс

life buoy - спасательный буй

life boat - спасательная лодка

time of embarkation - время посадки на корабль

to fall overboard - упасть за борт

to roll and pitch - качать (корабль)

to be caught in a storm - попасть в шторм

to be moored at - быть пришвартованным

to wave one's hand - махать рукой

pier - пирс, причал

to raise (to lower) the gangway - поднять (опустить) трап

to set sail for - отплыть в

to travel light - путешествовать налегке

hold - трюм

to suck a slice of lemon - сосать ломтик лимона

to be not much of a sailor - плохо переносить морские путешествия

to be (get) seasick - страдать морской болезнью

porthole - иллюминатор

steward - стюард

to call at a port - заходить в порт

port of destination - порт назначения

to share one's cabin with - делить каюту с...

to go ashore (to land) - высаживаться, сходить на берег

to ply between - курсировать между

to sink (sank, sunk) - затонуть (о корабле)

t o get _{drowned - тонуть (о человеке)}

to be

At the doctor's Dialogue 1

Doctor: What's the trouble?

Patient: Well, I don't know what's the matter with me, but I've been sleeping very badly lately and I've lost three kilos during this week.

Doctor: Have you been working very hard?

Patient: I've had some very urgent work to do and I had to keep late hours as I was short of time.

Doctor: Well, strip to the waist, please. I'll sound you. (Sounds his chest). Your heart is very good. Let me feel your pulse. It's quite normal. I think you must have a good rest. Do you smoke, by the way?

Patient: Sorry to say, but I do. About twenty cigarettes a day.

Doctor: You must cut it down by half at least. Then take a leave and get to some quiet place. I'm sure that fresh air, a change of surroundings will do you a lot of good.

Patient: Will you prescribe me some medicine?

Doctor: I'll give you some sleeping pills. Take them for a week. But' I've already said that the best remedy for you will be a good rest somewhere in the country.

Patient: Thank you, doctor. I'm sure to follow your advice. Good-bye.

Dialogue 2

Wife: What's the matter with you? You are looking seedy.

Husband: Am I? No wonder, I am feeling poorly.

Wife: Have you taken your temperature? What is it?

Husband: 38,2.

Wife: Oh, dear. Get to bed at once and I'll call the doctor in.

Doctor comes

Doctor: What's wrong with you?

Patient: Oh, doctor, I have a splitting headache, a running nose and a bad cough. My temperature was 38,2 in the morning.

Doctor: Let me feel your pulse and sound your chest. Now, open your mouth. Yes, the tongue is furred and the throat is sore.

Patient: Is there anything serious the matter with me?

Doctor: Don't worry. It's just the grippe. But you must stay in bed for three days at least (To his wife). You must keep him warm and give him lots of hot tea with lemon. Take this prescription to the chemist's. I've prescribed some tablets which he must take three times a day before meals. I'll drop in tomorrow.Good-bye.

Wife: Thank you, doctor. Good-bye.

Exercises

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.

1. When do people most often fall ill with the flu? What are its symptoms? 2. Have you ever fallen ill with the flu? Did you have a splitting headache when you were ill with the flu? 3. Are you subject to colds (coughs, headaches, sore throats)? 4. What is the best remedy for a headache (cough, sore throat, cold) in your opinion? 5. How does one usually feel when he has a cold? 6. Do you usually run a high temperature when you are ill? 7. Who must one send for if he is unwell? 8. In what way does the doctor usually examine his patients? 9. What does he usually prescribe? 10. Do you lose appetite when you are not quite well? 11. Where do we have our prescriptions made? 12. What are the symptoms of quinsy (scarlet fever, pneumonia)? 13. What infectious diseases do you know? 14. What are children's diseases? 15. Do you always keep to bed when you are unwell?

Exercise 2. What will you answer if the doctor asks you:

1 .What's the trouble? 2. When did you take the temperature? What was it? 3. When did you feel bad? 4. Does it hurt you when you swallow? 5. What diseases were you ill with when a child? 6. When did you consult the doctor last? 7. Are you subject to headaches? 8. Where do you have pains? 9. When do you have pains? 10. What are you complaining about? 11. How long have you been like that? 12. Do you smoke much? 13. When did you start coughing so badly?

Exercise 3. Ask your friend or relative and let her (him) respond.

Example: Get me a hot water bottle, will you?

Or:

Will you get me a hot water bottle, please. Here you are.

Yes, of course. Just a minute.

To fetch you a couple of tablets; to get you a thermometer; to give you a glass of hot milk; to send for the doctor; to go to the chemist's; to air the room; to get you something to read; to make you a compress; to buy menthol drops; to make a cup of hot tea with lemon; to tell you something interesting; to close the window.

Exercise 4. Complete the sentences.

1. On Saturday I went out without my warm coat on and now .... 2. The doctor took the patient's temperature and said... . 3. I can hardly breathe because .... 4. When she came home she complained of a headache and her mother .... 5. The patient said that .... 6. It hurts me when I swallow because .... 7. The best remedy for it is ... . 8. When I have a splitting headache .... 9. This medicine will work wonders if.... 10. If you follow the doctor's instructions you'll .... 11. You must give up smoking ... . 12. She looks very thin ... . 13. She looks the picture of health ... . 14. She is losing weight....

Exercise 5. Ask your fellow-students:

... why she looks seedy today

... if she is running a temperature

... what her temperature is

... if she has taken medicine

... if she is subject to colds, headaches, to sore throats, coughs

... what the best remedy for a headache is

... what diseases she was ill with when a child

... what children's diseases she knows

... if she knows any incurable diseases

... what catching diseases she knows

... when and what she was ill with

... if she made an appointment with her doctor when she fell ill

... if she has ever had any complications after a disease

... if she has ever been operated

... if she has ever had any traumas

... what the symptoms of quinsy are

... how she felt when she had the grippe

... if she has ever had a toothache

... if she has ever had her chest X - rayed

... if she has ever had her blood tested

... what her blood pressure is

... what medicine the doctor prescribed her when she

… was ill with quinsy

... if the doctor gave her a sick-leave

... if she followed the doctor's advice

... how long it took her to get well (to recover)

... if she kept her bed when she was ill

... if her friends often visited her.

Exercise 6. Fill in the blanks with suitable words.

1. The doctor ... his patient very carefully and ... some medicine. 2. I can hardly turn my head because of .... 3. The flu usually begins with .... 4. There is nothing serious the matter with you, it's just .... 5. You look rather ... today. 6. It ... me when I swallow. 7. Let me feel your ... . 8. I don't like this sound of your ... . 9. Do you feel any ... over there? 10. He has been ill with ... for a week already. 11. If you want ... you must follow the doctor's advice. 12. Will you go to ... and have these ... made? 13. ... the throat three times a day. 14. This ... is very good for a cough. 15. I am feeling .... 16. You have all the ... of the grippe. 17. If you are ... to colds you should take a good care of yourself. 18. She caught ... when we were skiing. 19. Your forehead is hot, let me take .... 20. My sister was ill with ... when she was a child.

Exercise 7. Insert prepositions or postverbal adverbs wherever necessary.

1. What are you complaing ... ? 2. The best remedy ... a headache is fresh air. 3. Will you go ... the chemist's and have this prescription made, please? 4. The doctor has given him a sick-leave because he has a very bad complication ... his heart ... quinsy. 5. The weather has been nasty lately and many people have fallen ill ... the flu. 6. She is ill... quinsy ... a bad form. 7. You'd better take a tablet of analgine ... your headache. 8. She says she is subject ... coughs. 9. Take these tablets ... your cough. 10. She says she often has pains ... the stomach ... meals. 11. Shake this mixture carefully ... use. 12. The doctor told him to stay ... bed. 13. You have all the symptoms ...the flu. 14. The first thing to do is to bring the temperature .... 15. I am feeling rather poorly. Perhaps we've got a touch ... the flu. It generally begins ... a headache and a fever. 16. You are running a high temperature. Shall I send ... a doctor?

Exercise 8. Fill in the missing parts of the dialogues.

Mary: Hello, Charles, what's the matter with you? You are looking rather seedy.

Charles: ..........

Mary: Are you running a temperature? Have you taken it?

Charles: .........

Mary: I'll get it (the thermometer) presently. And how is your throat? Does it hurt you when you swallow?

Charles: .........

Mary: I am afraid you are falling ill with the flu. You'd better stay in bed for a day or two. Now, what's the temperature?

Charles: .........

Mary: Is it as high as that? Then I think I'll send for the doctor at once.

Doctor: What's the matter with you?

Charles: .........

Doctor: How long have you been like that?

Charles: ...... ...

Doctor: Have you taken your temperature?

Charles: ……..

Doctor: Let me feel your pulse. H-m, it's a bit rapid. Now I must sound you. Your back, please. Take a deep breath.

Charles: ………

Doctor: No, there is nothing serious the matter with you. I'll give you a prescription to be made at the chemist's. Take a dose of this medicine every three hours. I hope you'll get well in no time. I'll look in again in the morning. Good afternoon.

Charles: ...... ...

Exercise 9. Translate into English.

1. У меня болит горло, и я сильно кашляю. - Вы что-нибудь принимали? - Вечером я выпила стакан горячего молока с маслом и медом и сделала компресс на горло. Но это не очень помогает. Наверное, придется обратиться к врачу. 2. Если вы подвержены простудам, вам надо тепло одеваться. Особенно легко простудиться весной и осенью. 3. Если у тебя температура, выпей таблетку аспирина, чтобы сбить жар.' И полежи-ка ты сегодня в постели. Я позвоню Ане и скажу, что ты неважно себя чувствуешь и в институт не пойдешь. 4. Что сказал тебе врач? - Он сказал, что ничего серьезного, но гланды не в порядке, с ними что-то надо делать, может быть, оперировать. 5. Я принесла тебе микстуру для полоскания горла. Мне сказали в аптеке, что нужно полоскать горло три раза в день до еды. 6. Он жалуется, что у него болит желудок. Я думаю, ему надо обратиться к врачу. Если что-то серьезное, то ему лучше лечь в больницу. 7. В детстве мой сын перенес корь, воспаление легких, скарлатину. Сейчас дети редко болеют корью и скарлатиной. В раннем детстве им делают прививки против этих болезней.

Exercise 10. Read and translate the story.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Once upon a time, many years ago - when our grandfathers were little children - there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittle - John Dolittle, D.M. "D.M." means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot.

He lived in a little town called Puddleby-on-the Marsh. All the folks, young and old knew him well by sight and whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, "There goes the Doctor! - He's a clever man". And the dogs and the children would all run up and follow behind him, and even the crows that lived in the church-tower would see and nod their heads.

The house he lived in, on the edge of the town, was quite small but his garden was very large and had a wide lawn and stone seats and weeping-willows hanging over. His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was housekeeper for him, but the Doctor looked after the garden himself.

He was very fond of animals and kept many kinds of pets. Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar.

He had a cow with a calf too, and an old lame horse - twenty-five years of age - and chickens, and pigeons, and two lambs, and many other animals. But his favourite pets were Dad-Dad the duck, Jip the dog, Cub-Cub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too.

His sister used to grumble about all these animals, and said they made the house untidy and one day when an old lady with rheumatism came to see the Doctor, she sat on the hedgehog who was sleeping on the sofa and never came to see him any more, but drove every Saturday all the way to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different doctor.

Then his sister, Sarah Dolittle, came to him and said:

"Hey, how can you expect patients to come and see you when you keep all these animals in the house? It's a fine doctor who would have his parlour full of hedgehogs and mice! That's the fourth person these animals have driven away. Squire Jenkins and the Parson say they wouldn't come near your house again - no matter how ill they are. We are getting poorer every day. If you go on like this, none of the best people will have you for a doctor".

"But I like the animals better than the 'best people'", said the Doctor.

"You are ridiculous", said his sister and walked out of the room.

So, as time went on, the Doctor got more and more animals, and the people who came to see him got less and less. Till at last he had no one left - except the Cat's-meat-Man, who didn't mind any kind of animals. But the Cat's-meat-Man wasn't very rich, and he only got sick once a year - at Christmas time - when he used to give the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine.

Sixpence a year wasn't enough to live on - even in those days, long ago, and if the Doctor hadn't had some money saved up in his money-box, no one knows what would have happened.

And he kept on getting still more pets; and of course it cost a lot to feed them. And the money he had saved up grew less and less.

Then he sold his piano, and let the mice live in a bureau-drawer. But the money he got for that too began to go, so he sold the brown suit he wore on Sundays and went on becoming poorer and poorer.

And now, when he walked down the street in his high hat, people would say to one another, "There goes John Dolittle, D.M.! There was time when he was the best known doctor in the West Country - look at him now - he hasn't any money and his stockings are full of holes!"

But the dogs and the cats and the children still ran up and followed him through the town - the same as they had done when he was rich.

(After Hugh Lofting)